Random Variable

“Female values” have not been shaped for public purposes nor under conditions of freedom but rather have been developed under conditions of oppression and bent to the service of power in the private sphere. Moreover they do not, any more than their masculine counterpart, bear our full humanity. Although we may find some of women’s historically developed qualities more appealing than those of men, women cannot be called the more “fully human” gender in a history that dichotomizes women and men along almost every dimension of human being and activity. Within the partiality of the construction of both women and men, there has been no ungendered human experience, only the experience of women and men

That from Wendy Brown’s Politics of Manhood.

As Global Voices Online reports:

Japundit links to a news story where visiting Japanese Miss Universe Riyo Mori was given a cold reception by protesters in West Java, Indonesia. The protesters are a part of a hardline Islamic group that opposes the exploitation of beauty.

There’s no mention in the news reports that are linked to as to whether or not the protestors are predominantly male or female (as in, should we understand the protests as a campaign to keep women inside a religious, patriarchal moralism, or should it be seen as a women’s piety movement for women?)
Besides, since when did opposing the exploitation of beauty become a hardline thing? Did I miss a meeting?